Held Together Quotes
58 quotes by 51 authors
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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but…
— Nikola Tesla
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Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
— Anselm Kiefer
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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
— Laozi
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Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]…
— Alice Munro
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Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily…
— Francoise Sagan
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National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have…
— Kofi Annan
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I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and…
— Sylvester Stallone
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I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
— Edie Falco
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Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
— Barry Lopez
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I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people…
— Richard Scarry
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
— Galileo Galilei
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All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my…
— Shirley Jackson
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With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and…
— Edith Wharton
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
— Dorothy Allison
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Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was…
— Jonathan Stroud
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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't…
— David Levithan
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After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love.…
— James A. Baldwin
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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably…
— Raymond Chandler
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence…
— Willa Cather
Who Wrote These Held Together Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 58 Held Together Quotes, led by these top contributors: